Amos, thanks for your reply. See my notes below. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/01/2013 5:27 p.m., Simon Matthews wrote: >> >> I am finding that some websites do not respond when queried through squid. >> >> I looked at this page, which suggests some solutions: >> >> http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/thinsg-to-look-at-if-websites-are-hanging >> but I don't think it gives any useful suggestions. I tried setting the >> mss to 1200 without success. >> >> The basic reason that I don't think these suggestions are appropriate >> for the problems I am seeing is simply that queries from the same >> machine using telnet or wget (but not from squid) do get responses, so >> the problem appears to be related to squid, rather than the networking >> setup. > > > So where are the packets disappearing? > > The article is a bit old but those are still the main reasons. Nowdays > things are also compounded by IPv6 and ICMPv6 packets also having > ECN/PMTU/WSS issues, you need to check whether Squid is performing IPv4 or > IPv6 then followup carefully in each of those protocols. Note that wget and > telnet can easily use a different version of IP with better results. > > If you can mention some specific sites (or better specific URLs) which are > failing maybe someone can take a look and see if its just your or a bigger > issue. > The site that is giving problems is http://www.dmv.ca.gov Here are some tcpdumps: wget, bypassing the proxy: tcpdump -i eth0 host 134.186.15.29 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 19:51:53.580924 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [S], seq 3438916088, win 14600, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 1020431 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 19:51:53.603836 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34654: Flags [S.], seq 3339908004, ack 3438916089, win 65535, options [mss 1380], length 0 19:51:53.603907 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [.], ack 1, win 14600, length 0 19:51:55.449109 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:16, ack 1, win 14600, length 15 19:51:55.673140 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34654: Flags [.], ack 16, win 65535, length 0 19:51:56.776100 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 16:17, ack 1, win 14600, length 1 19:51:56.800028 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34654: Flags [P.], seq 1:1136, ack 17, win 65535, length 1135 19:51:56.800099 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [.], ack 1136, win 15890, length 0 19:51:56.800118 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34654: Flags [F.], seq 1136, ack 17, win 65535, length 0 19:51:56.801280 IP 98.248.55.206.34654 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [F.], seq 17, ack 1137, win 15890, length 0 19:51:56.828107 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34654: Flags [.], ack 18, win 65535, length 0 wget via the proxy: tcpdump -i eth0 host 134.186.15.29 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 19:51:03.118935 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [S], seq 2175513684, win 14600, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 1007816 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 19:51:03.140282 IP 134.186.15.29.http > 98.248.55.206.34653: Flags [S.], seq 3122380782, ack 2175513685, win 65535, options [mss 1380], length 0 19:51:03.140361 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [.], ack 1, win 14600, length 0 19:51:03.140684 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:204, ack 1, win 14600, length 203 19:51:03.385677 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:204, ack 1, win 14600, length 203 19:51:03.881680 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:204, ack 1, win 14600, length 203 19:51:04.873694 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:204, ack 1, win 14600, length 203 19:51:06.861687 IP 98.248.55.206.34653 > 134.186.15.29.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:204, ack 1, win 14600, length 203 Simon